The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-02

men returned to work superintendent Brady
went over and urged the men to come back, and
presented the company's side of the question.
The men refused to talk with him. At Pier 16
the men are still at work. The freight-handlers
of the Lehigh Valley, on the North river num-
bering 100 men, struck at p. NJ, aud joined the
ranks of the strikers.
The freight-handlers employed in the yards of
the New Jersey Central road at Communipaw
and Bayonne this morning struck for an increase
of wages, in accordance with the notice they
served the company yesterday. There
about FIVE hundred of the men out General
Freight Agent Butler of the Pennsylvania rail-
road. received notice from committee of the
freight-handlers this morning that unless their
wages were raised they would strike. The COM
pany is given until to- morrow at noon to comply
with the demands. At the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western company's freight depot in
Hoboken and the Erie Railroad Company's depot
in Jersey City the handlers at work.
1t was reported to-day that conferences had
been held last night between the coal managers
and the Knights of Labor, and another confer
ence was said to have been arranged for to day
with Austin Corbin, president of the Reading
company. The president of of the other
companies said that he had heard limitations of
a strike being ordered at Philadelphia, in order
to make Reading come to an agreement with the
coal-handlerS here. AT the Offices of the coal
companies it is stated that there is no change in
the situation. The Pennsylvania Coal Com
pany report that they expect to move more coal
to-day than they have on any day since the
y,
& Co., who are the largest individual shippers
| on the Jersey Central, says that they will not
| treat with the Knights of Labor as an organiza-
ton, and any overtures must come from en-
| ployes direct
| The 'longshoremen truckers, pliers. and other
numerous branches of workmen who are mem
bers of the 'Longshoremens Union and employed
on the railroad piers of the North river, turned
out at o'clock to-day. The men on the Lehigh
Valley road, Pier 2; the Pennsylvania, Piers l.,
] A, and &c. the Delaware, Lackawanna e. West
ern, and the New York, Lake Erie & Western,
numbering nearly one thousand, quit work by or
| der OF the Longshoremen's Union The Lehigh
Valley shut down the pier gates, aad about a
score of men remained at work on the piers of
the Pennsylvania and the New York, Lake Erie
| & Western. The agents of the companies state
that the Inconvenience will be but temporary;
| that they will put other men to work at once,
and that traffic will not be much impeded by the
| strike.
The strike Of the freight-handlers on the rail
| road piers, this afternoon. added nearly ). 600
men to the ranks of the idle. The temporary
! stoppage of freight throws out several hundred
truck men. On the Pennsylvania railroad
piers only ten men were left at work. All the
men on the piers of the Lehigh Valley road
struck. Superintendent Whitman told them
| that their places would be filled at once. Later
in the afternoon l5O out of the 200 strikers on
| the Pennsylvania returned to work, according
to the statement of Superintendent Bowman.
The strikers claim that only twenty went back.
|
Jersey stopped work, and the pier was closed.
At the New York Central pier the agent said he
had all the men he wanted Most of them were
Italians, but handled the freight rapidly. On
the Erie pier only ten men remained at work.
Agent Hoffman said that he would fill the places
of the strikers to- morrow. Over one hundred
of his men struck
At the headquarters of the Ocean Longshore
mems Association. tonight, 1t was said tina,
Coopers' Union, No. 2, had offered to strike te
aid the freight-handlers as soon as desired. This
union includes all the coopers employed on the
piers repairing and tightening up barreled
freight before slowing it on vessels.
The Ell Paso. of the Morgan line. is being
slowly unloaded. 1t is expected that the vesse
will be ready to sail on its advertised date The
cargo of the New York has not been touched.
The Ell Dorado arrived to-day, and is at anchor
opposite her pier. There are about 160 men al
work on this pier. The City of Para, of thu
Pacific Mail line sailed on time to-day. The Re
public, of the White Star line, will be ready, i
is said. to sail on Saturday. La Bretagne, of tn.
French line, is being loaded. The City Of Chi
cago, of the Inman line, will sail on Thursday
! On the East-river front the places OF the strik
] ers are very nearly all filled, but the new mel